Definition of Split personality

1. Noun. A relatively rare dissociative disorder in which the usual integrity of the personality breaks down and two or more independent personalities emerge.

Exact synonyms: Multiple Personality
Generic synonyms: Dissociative Disorder

Definition of Split personality

1. Noun. (psychology) the supposed psychological syndrome in which two or more personalities exist in the same person ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Split Personality

split end
split ends
split fat
split gene
split genes
split hairs
split horizon
split infinitive
split infinitives
split level
split off
split one's sides
split personalities
split personality (current term)
split pot
split pots
split rail
split ratio
split renal function test
split run
split screen
split screens
split second
split shift
split shot
split shots
split single
split slab

Literary usage of Split personality

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1902)
"Then there is the ' split personality' of dreams. Mr. Hutchinson seems rather dubious about that. Thus Maury, in a dream, met a man, and asked him (what in ..."

2. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers, Leopold Hamilton Myers (1907)
"... hypnotic methods, whose increasing employment certainly differentiates the latter from the earlier cases of split personality in a very favourable way. ..."

3. Human personality and its survival of bodily death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1906)
"... hypnotic methods, whose increasing employment certainly differentiates the latter from the earlier cases of split personality in a very favourable way. ..."

4. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"call them splinters—of the man's own split personality. His will and character may divide up in manifestation just as his intellect may do. 914. ..."

5. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"all them splinters—of the man's own split personality. His will and character may divide up in manifestation just as his intellect may do. 914. ..."

6. The Culture of Personality by John Herman Randall (1912)
"... will work together in harmonious and perfect accord, where there is no " divided will" or " split personality " but rather a deep, abiding inward unity. ..."

7. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"... hypnotic methods, whose increasing employment certainly differentiates the later from the earlier cases of split personality in a very favourable way. ..."

8. Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death by Frederic William Henry Myers (1903)
"t-iods, whose increasing employment certainly differentiates the later • 7i the earlier cases of split personality in a very favourable way. .'. ..."

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